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A BIT OF GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ - SUNNIS NOW *WANT* TO BE INVOLVED!

“As the Shiite majority prepared to take control of the country’s first freely elected government, tribal chiefs representing Sunni Arabs in six provinces issued a list of demands — including participation in the government and drafting a new constitution — after previously refusing to acknowledge the vote’s legitimacy.

“We made a big mistake when we didn’t vote,” said Sheik Hathal Younis Yahiya, 49, a representative from northern Nineveh. “Our votes were very important.”

Since al-Sistani of the Shia is reaching out to the Sunni, this looks like very good news, indeed.  Via cigarsinthesand     Read the rest….

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